Dear Chinthes,

There has been a lot going on at ISY this week.
On Tuesday we welcomed International School Myanmar to ISY for high school basketball.
On Wednesday our middle school football team traveled to ISM. Early on Thursday morning we wished our SEASAC teams and groups well as they traveled to their respective competitions and festivals. For live feeds of our Chinthe athletes competing at their respective SEASAC tournaments please see the links below. Then, to top it all off, After School Activities started this week.
To read more about these events and athletics please continue reading below in the relevant sections.

SEASAC Information

On Thursday ISY said farewell and good luck and skill to our girls and boys basketball teams, our girls touch rugby team and our arts festival group. Please continue reading for more information on where and what they will be doing this weekend and for the link to watch the matches live!

Links to live streams of the SEASAC tournaments.

SEASAC Boys Basketball

SEASAC Girls Basketball

SEASAC Girls Touch Rugby

(Repeated) On Thursday morning, ISY will be sending four teams to various SEASAC events/tournaments in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. These events will be SEASAC girls and boys basketball, SEASAC girls touch rugby and the SEASAC arts festival.

The boys basketball and girls touch rugby teams will both play their tournaments in Singapore. Boys basketball will play at the Australian International School and girls touch rugby will be played at United World College East.

The girls basketball and arts festival will both be held in Kuala Lumpur. The girls basketball will be held at Kuala Lumpur Alice Smith School and the arts festival will be held jointly between Garden International School and Mont’ Kiara International School.

It is exciting for our arts festival students because this is the first time since 2019 that a SEASAC Arts Festival has been held. I am very happy that ISY has an arts contingent for this returning event.

I am sure you will all join me in wishing all of our students the very best of luck and skill at these events.

What is SEASAC?
The Southeast Asian Student Activities Conference is the athletics and activities conference that ISY belongs to outside of Myanmar. Each year ISY sends students to athletic, Model United Nations conferences and arts festivals. These events are a very valuable opportunity for our students to connect with other like minded students across Southeast Asia. This section in the Athletics and Activities blog will outline some of the important information and general happenings around SEASAC events.

SEASAC Dates:
SEASAC Touch Rugby @ UWCE, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Basketbal Girls @ Kuala Lumpur Alice Smith School, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Basketball Boys @ NIST, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Arts Festival @ GIS and MKIS, February 2, 3 and 4

High School Athletics

On Tuesday ISY welcomed International School Myanmar to play our high school basketball teams. The boys basketball team would play first and then the girls basketball team. ISM is tipped as our teams’ biggest challenge for the Yangon Athletic Conference (YAC).
As they say in basketball, our team started “Cold”, and it seemed that none of our shots would go in. On the other hand, ISM were able to capitalize on our mistakes and score on many of their opportunities. After a while ISY warmed up and started to make some of their shots but by this time the deficit was too great and ISM would win, 27-48.
It was up to the high school girls basketball team to pull back the Chinthe pride in the next game. The ISM girls basketball team on paper was stronger than their boy counterparts so our girls would need to be at their best. Unfortunately, the girls came out cold like the ISY boys in the previous game. However, unlike the boys the girls would find some form and only trail 8-11 at the end of the first quarter. From there, there were touches of brilliance by both teams but ISM had two very good scorers on their team that would dominate most of the scoresheet. At the end of the third quarter ISM would lead 18-30 and at full time would win 20-41.
Both of our high school basketball teams will benefit from their respective SEASAC tournaments this weekend and it could well be a different story when we play ISM later in the season.

Middle School Athletics

On Wednesday ISY traveled to International School Myanmar to play our first game of the middle school football season. This was our first Yangon Athletic Conference game.
This was our first outing as a team and we were rusty. However, considering this, ISY held the lead for much of the first half. This was always going to be a tough game because the ISM team was very skilled. The ISY boys football team put in a great effort but were well beaten by a very skilful side. 2-6 would be the final score of the match.

Our next match is at home today (Feb. 2) at ISY against ILBC International School.

After School Activities 

Well done to all those students and teachers that have completed the first week of Session 2 ASAs. There have been a lot of student engagement this week and it will continue until April 5 when Session 2 finishes.
This is a reminder that the end of next week (second week of ASAs) is the cut off for changing your ASA.
Parents will be able to check their child(ren)’s ASA schedule on PowerSchool. They will also be able to check where and when the ASAs will be and who is the ASA supervisor. This information will be automatically updated as changes are made to the students’ ASA schedules.
After the second week of ASAs, February 9, there will be no more changing from one ASA to another. Please make any changes to your child(ren)’s ASA schedule before this time.

The times for ASAs are as follows:

Elementary school ASA 2:20 – 3:05 PM
Middle and high school ASA 2:40-3:25 PM

ISY Invertational Friendly Swim Meet

Swim Team

Here are the training times for our elementary, middle and high school swim teams.

ES Swim Team:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 2:20-3:20 PM

MS and HS Swim Team:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 3:30-5:00 PM
Tuesday and Thursday 6:45-7:45 AM

Community Sport

Every Saturday a group of ISY community plays badminton and pickleball in the ISY gym. This is from 3:00-5:00 PM. 

If you are interested in playing either of these community sports please come along at the given day and time and you will be welcomed.

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ISY Sports Broadcasting

Last year a sports broadcasting club was started at ISY. They were able to cover some of our high school basketball games with great success. They produced a very professionally polished product.
This year they will cover our high school athletics for the whole year. If you are interested in this please follow the link below and this will lead you to the group’s Youtube page. So far the group has covered two high school volleyball games and some of the high school basketball games from last year.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzBh86SGxeV22RG6ZHYW2g

Questions or More Information

As always, if you have any questions about what is in this blog or anything else that you may think of related to activities or athletics please feel free to contact me at:

josullivan@isyedu.org

Kindest regards,

Mr. Jonathan O’Sullivan

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